Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Synonyms: Hemiturrilites Breistroffer 1953, Parahelicoceras Breistroffer 1953, Subhelicoceras Breistroffer 1953
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1922. On Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Angola, collected by Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.R.S. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 53:91-160
Parent taxon: Turrilitidae according to A. Tajika et al. 2018
See also Atabekyan 1985, Henderson 1990, Matsumoto 1959, Mosavinia et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carthaginites, Hypoturrilites, Mariella, Mesoturrilites, Neostlingoceras, Notostreptites, Ostlingoceratinae, Proturrilitoides, Pseudohelicoceras, Turrilites, Turrilitinae
Subtaxa: Pseudhelicoceras carlottense Pseudhelicoceras gracile Pseudhelicoceras perelegans Pseudhelicoceras petersoni Pseudhelicoceras quadrituberculatum Pseudhelicoceras robertianum
Type: Turrilites robertianus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (1 collection), Australia (1), Canada (4: British Columbia), France (11), Iran (1), South Africa (1), Switzerland (1), Turkmenistan (2), United States (5: California)
Total: 27 collections including 34 occurrences
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